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Creating a Layer Selector: Crime in the U.S.A.
Making maps can be a challenge. Whether you’re just getting started with the CartoDB Editor or you’re a seasoned geo-spatial developer using the CartoDB Platform, The tools that CartoDB offers allows...
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WordPress now brings you beautiful maps from CartoDB
CartoDB is now the easiest tool on the web for adding maps to your WordPress site. With over 60 million users, we wanted to make sure they had the ability to share maps with their stories and on their...
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Aid Reports: better reporting for NGOs,and better data for everyone
For folks working in global development – whether in micro-finance or environmental protection or food security – one common challenge is collecting data from a huge range of far-flung projects. New...
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Open data and mapping at Google Campus London: a summary of CartoDBeers
As you probably know, we have a deep commitment with the open data and mapping communities. We feel supporting people and organisations passionate about the values and technologies that in the end make...
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Welcome Antonio
We are happy to announce Antonio Zamorano is joining CartoDB team as Systems Engineer. He will be mostly helping the team automating tasks and scaling the platform to its next level.Antonio is...
View ArticleNYC, the City That Never Sleeps
In 1905, the New York Times declared New York City, “the noisiest city on Earth.” Little has seemingly changed with hundreds of thousands of noise complaints logged with the city’s 311 complaint...
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Data.gov now allows you to "Open in CartoDB"
Data.gov has been publishing United States Federal Government data since 2009. Their mission is to increase public access to over 125,000 datasets they have already published and many others they are...
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Geo and the Mobile Industry: Thoughts following the Mobile World Congress
Two weeks ago the CartoDB team spent a very intense week in Barcelona, participating in the Mobile World Congress and 4YFN events at two different booths. We are certainly blessed to have such a...
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CartoDB embeds brought to you by Embedly
Have you ever wrestled with iframes in responsive websites? What about resizing them after the page is loaded? Or maybe your site relies on consistently themed embeds from multiple services? If any of...
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Building Community with Member Benefits
Fresh from a series of March conferences including FOSS4G, Tapestry, and NICAR, the community team at CartoDB has been working to better support our geo-journalists with new curriculum and partnerships...
View ArticleWorld Water Day: Mapping the spread of dams in the US
World Water Day was celebrated this past Sunday bringing attention to issues around water and sustainable development. Given current water use, the UN predicts the world will face a 40% shortfall in...
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Serving raster tiles from Google Cloud Storage to CartoDB
With Google Maps Engine (GME) closing down next year, GME users are looking for alternatives. CartoDB offers a great solution for mapping vector data, but some users also have raster imagery they use...
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Share your Points [and lines, and polygons...] with CartoDB on Microsoft...
To say SharePoint is a popular enterprise software platform is a bit of an understatement. Having evolved over 15 years, SharePoint is used by over three quarters of the Fortune 500 and over 100...
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Introducing Andrew Thompson!
Please read/sing along in the tune of the funky sounds of DJ Jazzy Jeff.Now, this is a story all about how CartoDB teamed up with another Andrew/ Andrew with a T - and brought him to the Sales...
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Magical PostGIS in three brief movements & CartoDBeers
Next Wednesday, April 15th, we’re hosting a new edition of CartoDBeers - the informal gathering where we talk about maps, tech, and latest news. This time we are proud to welcome our very own Paul...
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CartoDB nominated for the 2015 Webby Awards
CartoDB is very honored to announce that we’ve been nominated for a Webby! How do you say thank you in five words or less?The Webby Awards are kind of a big deal - last year they received 12,000...
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Map of the Week: Mexico's Mississippi
In the wake of World Water Day (water puns for the win!), we’re plotting this Map of the Week using CartoDB + OdysseyJS to characterize rivers, and chapterize learning about location via Mexico’s...
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Map moving objects with CartoDB and Firebase
Firebase is an awesome platform for making real-time applications, allowing developers to push and receive updates from multiple clients easily. When data changes, apps built with Firebase update...
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OGC Web Map Server support in CartoDB
WMS! What, more stuff? We make software, with map standards: Web Map Server. That is to say, CartoDB now offers the possibility of making its visualizations viewable via the Open Geospatial Consortium...
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CartoDB & Maptime: Let There Be Pizza!
At CartoDB we love our mapping communities. With Maptime being one of our favorite gatherings - and a catalyzer of mapping culture not only in CartoDB’s home of New York City, but across the world - We...
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